Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finn should be in a position to know. A South Boston native, or "Southie" as she puts it, Finn says, "Throughout my four years at school I've seen the Harvard community not truly understand South Boston. It's a very tight-knit community--people pull for each other--and that can have advantages and disadvantages. Either way, I just wish more Harvard people could see what it's really like...
...effort to reverse the Reagan Administration's tight policy on information control, two top Harvard administrators this week released a report calling on President Bush to overhaul federal practices involving the dissemination of information...
During the past several years, Harvard has led the nation's universities in opposing what it views as harmful restrictions on the free flow of information that were introduced by the Reagan Administration. Since 1985, Shattuck has released two other statements criticizing the government's tight controls over the release of scientific data...
...developing a chemical-weapons capability. By mid-1987 U.S. analysts were convinced that a facility at Rabta, 50 miles southwest of Tripoli, which began showing up in satellite photos in 1985, was indeed a chemical-weapons plant. Code-named "Pharma-150" by the Libyans, the plant was built under tight security conditions, with a 1,300-man force of cheap labor imported from Thailand. Foreign consultants entered the country without visas and left no hotel or other records of their stay in Libya...
...other political lesson Reagan has taught future leaders is how to avoid accountability by charming the national media until the crisis blows over. Some of his most valuable instructions include: learn how to control the media, so that they do not control you; keep a tight rein on press conferences so that important issues cannot be fully explored and you can't nailed; and always have a joke or anecdote to prove your point gently, no matter how strained the analogy or unbelievable the circumstances...